Word: ripper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Attic (20th Century-Fox). Jack (Shane) Palance is a movie heavy so heavy that he makes Jack the Ripper seem no more than a sort of lovable nuisance on a late date. In this picture, in fact, he literally does just that. Director Hugo Fregonese lets himself get caught between his old-fashioned devil (the screenplay is based on Marie Belloc Lowndes's 1913 thriller, The Lodger) and the deep blue sea of modern psychiatric interpretation...
...London. Chicago had its quick rub-out with the .45 slug rubbed in garlic, New York its cement-festooned body in the East River, Paris its crime passionnel. But the sex sadist given to mutilation and multiple murders is a London specialty-there had been, for example, Jack the Ripper, the most storied of all, with at least six corpses in 1888; the Blackout Killer of 1942 (with four victims); the Vampire, who killed at least nine between 1944 and 1949, and ceremoniously drank a glass of each victim's blood. Now there was the Strangler of Notting Hill...
...violence and sensuality, set out in the glares and black shadows of fin de siecle romanticism. Singing in clipped, high-tension German, lustful Lulu causes one violent death after another among her helpless lovers. Then the pace slackens and she moves sonorously toward her own destruction hy Jack the Ripper...
Midfielder Ripper Lynch has returned to the second midfield after missing Saturday's game. Munro will play Pete Brooke and Bill Graham with Lynch, moving Al Sawyer to a fourth midfield. This newly created midfield will be composed of Sawyer, Godfrey Birkhead, and Laurie Otis...
Midfielder Bill Graham reported to the Crimson squad this week after a thesis stint, and Munro will start the lanky senior in the second midfield in place of Ripper Lynch, who will be taking a Law School exam...